The grants listed below are those obtained by Catalyst from the foundations and from Board of Education board reports.

After-School All-Stars
BP [British Petroleum]
The Broad Foundation
Circle of Service Foundation
Charitable Fund for Inner City Athletic Equipment
The Chicago Community Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
The Chicago Foundation for Education
The Chicago Public Education Fund
The Chicago Sun-Times
Comcast Financial Agency Corporation
Comer Science and Education Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Irving Harris Foundation
The Joyce Foundation
Joseph Kellman Family Foundation
LaSalle Bank
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Mattel Children’s Foundation
May Department Stores Foundation
McDougal Family Foundation
MidAmerica Bank, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Countrywide Home Loans
Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation
NEA Foundation
Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Prince Charitable Trusts
Steans Family Foundation
Terra Foundation for American Art
TCF Bank
U.S. Department of Education
Todd Wagner Foundation
The Woods Fund of Chicago

After-School All-Stars

• $75,000 to CPS for after-school programs. After-School All-Stars is a national program funded by foundations and corporations to provide academic and enrichment activities for students in 15 cities.

BP [British Petroleum]

• $220,000 to CPS for grants to individual teachers who develop activities that educate children about energy use and conservation.

The Broad Foundation

• $2.1 million to The University of Illinois at Chicago for its Urban Education Leadership Program for principal training.
• $4.5 million to CPS for a state-of-the art data system to streamline human resources operations.

Charitable Fund for Inner City Athletic Equipment

• $333,450 to CPS to purchase basketball shoes for high school boys’ and girls’ basketball teams.

The Chicago Community Foundation

• $181,000 to CPS for the Teacher Housing Resource Center, a housing assistance program that helps teachers rent or purchase housing within Chicago’s city limits.

The Chicago Community Trust

• $1.3 million to CPS for the Cluster 4 Middle Grades Project, which is working to reform middle-grades teaching in 34 schools during the 2007-08 school year.
• $200,000 to A+ Illinois for community organizing on behalf of education funding, tax reform and school quality issues.
• $150,000 to the Choir Academy Charter School of Chicago for an initiative to integrate arts into the curriculum.
• $150,000 to Scholarship America for the William J. Cook Scholarship, which provides four-year college and university scholarships to young men who graduate from high schools in Cook County. About half of the recipients come from CPS schools.
• $150,000 to Namaste Charter School for a teacher quality initiative for teachers in the 1st and 3rd grades.
• $136,500 to Aspira, Inc. of Illinois for the Aspira Teacher Professional Development Initiative.
• $130,000 to Asian Human Services for professional development at Passages Charter School.
• $125,000 to the Civitas Schools Foundation (which operates Chicago International charter schools) to expand its professional development program for teachers at the Northtown High School campus.
• $50,000 to the Chicago Community Foundation for planning and development of an arts high school in Chicago Public Schools.
• $50,000 to the Inner-City Teaching Corps of America for its expansion into secondary schools.
• $45,000 to Community Renewal Society for Catalyst Chicago.
• $25,000 to Civitas Schools Foundation for a collaborative project assessing students’ skills at 15 Chicago high schools

The Chicago Foundation for Education

• $194,360 to CPS for grants that give teachers the chance to take classes or engage in other learning over the summer to improve their instruction.
• $29,000 to CPS for 29 grants for elementary school teachers who will lead small groups of teachers as they implement effective teaching strategies.

The Chicago Public Education Fund

• $280,000 to National-Louis University to develop and launch a joint program offering a master’s degree in education in conjunction with certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

The Chicago Sun-Times

• $250,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools, an organization that links agencies, hospitals, universities and a wide range of health and human services to partnering Chicago public schools.

Comcast Financial Agency Corporation

• $10,000 to Disney Magnet School to purchase science materials and a school performance from the “Mythbusters” television program.

Comer Science and Education Foundation

• $20,000 to Revere Elementary School for substitute teachers, a career service position and consultants.

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

• $75,000 to the Academy for Urban School Leadership for induction and coaching for new teachers.
• $20,000 to Albany Park Neighborhood Council for the Greater Albany Park Education Coalition.
• $30,000 to Alternative Schools Network for the Praxis Project, a national nonprofit that works with local groups to address the underlying causes of community problems.
• $25,000 to the Chicago Academy of Sciences for Science on the Go, which brings scientific projects and books to the schools.
• $40,000 to Chicago Foundation for Education, an organization that supports CPS teachers, for the Grants for Teachers Study Group Program and the Teacher Network Leadership Institute.
• $35,000 to the reform group Designs for Change, for a course that teaches LSC members how to evaluate and select principals.
• $30,700 to Facing History and Ourselves for professional development of CPS teachers. The organization offers curricular resources, training and support to educators and students in history, social studies and language arts with particular focus on teaching children about genocide
• $48,800 to The Great Books Foundation, a nonprofit that publishes books, to improve reading across the curriculum in CPS.
• $60,000 to High Jump, a tuition-free academic enrichment program for talented and motivated low-income CPS middle- school students, for general operating support.
• $35,000 to Inner-City Teaching Corps, an alternative certification teacher program.
• $25,000 to Logan Square Neighborhood Association for a parent tutor program.
• $25,000 to Midtown Educational Foundation for the Metro Achievement Program, which offers after-school and summer programs to disadvantaged children.
• $30,000 to Mikva Challenge for the Civic Educator Network and development of a civics program for CPS.
• $70,000 to the Posse Foundation for its Pre-Collegiate Training Program.
• $25,000 to Teach for America-Chicago for program expansion..

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• $6.1 million to CPS for the High School Transformation project.
• $1.12 million to the CPS Department of Dropout Prevention and Recovery for planning and early implementation of programs for students who are out of school or not on track to graduate.

Irving Harris Foundation

• $2 million to the Erikson Institute to help build the Institute’s permanent home, plus a $2 million challenge grant.

The Joyce Foundation

• $50,000 to Business and Professional People for the Public Interest to co-sponsor the Chicago Schools Alliance, an organization of charter, contract, small, magnet and other Chicago public schools.
• $45,000 to Chicago Metropolis 2020 to support development of the Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map.
• $400,000 to Community Renewal Society to support Catalyst Chicago.
• $370,000 to Community Renewal Society to support Catalyst Ohio, a bimonthly newsmagazine that reports on school reform in Ohio’s urban school districts.
• $100,000 to Southern Illinois University to identify strategies for increasing the number of certified early childhood teachers in Chicago.
• $350,000 to the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C., to help Illinois policy makers increase the participation of immigrant families in Preschool for All; and to update a report on states’ experiences using community-based child care to provide preschool.
• $150,000 to Action for Children to promote policies aimed at increasing access to Preschool for All for the most at-risk children in Chicago.

Joseph Kellman Family Foundation

• $146,000 to CPS for its laptop program, which pays for equipment leases, staff and computers.

LaSalle Bank

• $250,000 to the Erikson Institute to help build the Institute’s permanent home.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

• $430,000 to Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design, to design and build installations in public libraries that support young people’s learning through digital media.

Mattel Children’s Foundation

• $20,000 to CPS to be used in 20 schools to support literacy and reading in grades 3-6.

May Department Stores Foundation

• $10,000 to CPS for its homeless education program.

McDougal Family Foundation

• $65,000 to start Network for College Success. The network works with select mid- to high-performing high schools to improve college preparation.

MidAmerica Bank, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Countrywide Home Loans

• $10,000 (from each institution) to CPS for its Teacher Housing Resource Center, which helps CPS teachers rent or buy homes within Chicago.

Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation

• $20,000 to Mather High for new and refurbished instruments for the school’s music department.

NEA Foundation

• $5,000 Student Achievement grant to Esther Oganda Ohito at John J. Pershing East Magnet School to help students research the Holocaust and write projects that relate the Holocaust to slavery.

Oppenheimer Family Foundation

• $107,900 in grants to 84 CPS teachers for elementary school classroom projects.
• $102,900 in grants to 73 CPS teachers for high school classroom projects.

Polk Bros. Foundation

• $250,000 to Renaissance Schools Fund, the fundraising arm of Renaissance 2010, for professional development at new Renaissance 2010 schools.
• $200,000 to DePaul University for professional development for 30 principals in CPS.
• $90,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools for a coordinator to connect health and human services to underserved students and family members in CPS.
• $85,000 to the Academy for Urban School Leadership for new teacher support.
• $70,000 to Teach For America for staff who will provide mentoring and support for members teaching in CPS.
• $60,000 to Strategic Learning Initiatives, a nonprofit that supports professional development, parent engagement and shared leadership, for a school improvement program in schools in Little Village and the West Side.
• $50,000 to the Mikva Challenge to train and support 65 CPS high school teachers in the Civic Educator Network and involve teachers in developing and piloting a model civics course.
• $50,000 to Chicago Commons Association for the Nuevos Futuros program, which focuses on academic assistance, personal development, cultural appreciation and college and career exposure for high school students.
• $50,000 to Girl Scouts of Chicago for GirlSpace, which pays leaders to run troops in Chicago public schools that cannot recruit volunteers.
• $40,000 to Northeastern Illinois University for Every Art, Every Child, which supports arts curricula aimed at improving student literacy at three Chicago public elementary schools.
• $40,000 to Posse Foundation, which provides scholarships to public high school students.
• $40,000 to the Chicago Humanities Festival for educational and professional development programs for teachers.
• $1 million over four years to Chicago Youth Centers to upgrade nine centers in Chicago and for naming rights to its ABC Center in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
• $750,000 over four years to the Erikson Institute toward its new home at 111 W. Illinois St.
• $45,000 for the Network for College Success. The network works with selected mid- to high-performing high school principals to improve college readiness.

Prince Charitable Trusts

• $25,000 to New Leaders for New Schools as general operating support.
• $20,000 to the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College, for a project to provide arts education training and classroom support in eight CPS schools.
• $20,000 to the Chicago Fund for Education Organizing to strengthen community organizing to improve Chicago’s public schools.
• $20,000 to the Community Renewal Society for Catalyst Chicago.
• $20,000 to National-Louis University for Project ALL (Advancing Literacy for Learning), which provides curriculum support for teachers with struggling readers and English-language learners.
• $15,000 to CPS for an initiative to strengthen guidance counseling in Chicago public high schools.

Steans Family Foundation

• $27,000 to CPS for Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), which targets students of average academic performance and helps them prepare for college.

Terra Foundation for American Art

• $24,360 to CPS for a project to provide professional development for CPS teachers related to the district’s collection of murals from the pre-Depression and New Deal eras.

TCF Bank

• $20,000 to CPS for Battle of the Books, a competition in which teams of 4th through 8th- graders answer questions about books they were required to read.

U.S. Department of Education

• $10 million to IFF to help charter schools find cost-effective funding for their buildings in five Midwestern states. The organization, formerly called the Illinois Facilities Fund, has expanded regionally and now serves Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin.
• $440,845 to CPS to increase the number of special education teachers from alternative certification programs and to increase retention through mentoring.

Todd Wagner Foundation

• $37,800 to CPS for After-School All-Stars, an after-school program for 5th through 8th -grade students that provides academic and enrichment activities.

The Woods Fund of Chicago

• $150,000 to Chicago Fund for Education Organizing to strengthen community organizing to improve Chicago’s public schools.